Title: Individual Research

Date: 15 April 2019

Rationale: The purpose of this lab was to continue searching for evidence of a potential function for the sequence of interest that the project is focused upon.

Procedure: The group continued to search for literature on NBCI PubMed that could support a function or a possible meaning for the conserved sequence. Tools such as transposon finder and others were utilized and an outline for a presentation was made. The group also consulted with research coaches in order to get a better idea of the scope and future direction of the project.

Results/Observations: While we still have negative results for a function of the sequence, the possibility of the sequence being a promoter or a regulatory sequence shows promise. The options for confirming these functions are fairly limited, however.

Conclusions/Next Steps: We will search for a promoter finder or another program that can lead us towards evidence for a function. In terms of the presentation, one conclusion that can be made is that in order to discover if the sequence functioned as a regulator. Our next steps will be to further search in literature as well as find a program that can predict the possibility of a promoter.